GORE VIDAL ON AMERICA...ONE OF OUR BEST BRAINS

Citizen Gore Vidal Elections won’t reverse the decline of American democracy, the prolific literary legend says By David Barsamian http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3977/citizen_gore_vidal Gore Vidal is one of the singular literary figures of this era. A scion of a political family, he grew up in a milieu of power and politics. Winner of the National Book Award in 1993 and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1982, Vidal is the author of scores of plays, screenplays and historical novels, including Lincoln and Julian. He also has written a number of bestselling nonfiction books, including Dreaming War, Imperial America and Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace. The Washington Post calls him “the master essayist of our age.”